Speed was an advantage to vessels carrying a high value, seasonal product, such as tea. The company had several ships in the tea trade from China to Britain. ![]() The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat.Ĭutty Sark photographed at sea by Captain Woodget using a camera balanced on two of the ship's boats lashed together.Ĭutty Sark was ordered by ship-owner John Willis, who operated a shipping company founded by his father. An image of the clipper appears on the label, and the maker formerly sponsored the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race. Ĭutty Sark whisky derives its name from the ship. On 19 October 2014 she was damaged in a smaller fire. Funders for the Cutty Sark conservation project include: the Heritage Lottery Fund, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Sammy Ofer Foundation, Greenwich Council, Greater London Authority, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Berry Brothers & Rudd, Michael Edwards, Alisher Usmanov. She was restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012. The ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on while undergoing conservation. ![]() She is one of only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole, the others being the City of Adelaide, which arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia on 3 February 2014 for preservation, and the beached skeleton of Ambassador of 1869 near Punta Arenas, Chile. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display.Ĭutty Sark is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). ![]() After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. Continuing improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which halted as steamships took over their routes.Īfter the big improvement in the fuel efficiency of steamships in 1866, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 gave them a shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years.
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